Mano Music Streamer (High-Res)

High-end streaming from any smartphone, tabled or PC or a laptop or whichever wireless device is at hand. This makes the listening experience much easier without compromising sound quality. The Mano Streamer is the ultimate streaming source for any DAC supporting coaxial SPDIF or supporting IIS HDMI inputs. IIS allows the DAC to derive ultra low jitter synchronous timing of the serial data that will be set up for transmission. Two femto clocks are applied for extremely detailed signal handling exact timing and low jitter thanks to these extreme accurate clocks powered by low noise (nV) discrete regulators. The device is powered by a discrete Class A power supply with more than 20.000uF power capacity, an high quality R-Core transformer and digital audio circuits are powered by ultra-low dsicrete noise regulator.

WHAT DO PROFESSIONALS THINK ABOUT THE MANO?

CUSTOMER RESPONSE - FEB 2017

"The mano HDMI I2S out is very transparent, giving a lot of details, sounding natural and not harsh. In the end I am considering using only the Mano as main source and even getting rid of CDs and my expensive CD Transport"

Low noise Power supply provided without generating unwanted noise and without passing it along into the sensitive digitital signal path.

2 original Toshiba 2SC5200 transistors and 20.000 uF power capacity

High quality R-core transformer. The R-core transformer has high isolation degree. it can improve the signal-to-noise ratio, isolate the harmonic interference, reduce the noise, make he background cleaner. R core transforer can fully improve the quality of sound.

Power rail for Raspberry and separated power rail for digital audio circuit

Fully reclocked I2S signal path with seperated data reclocking.

Aluminium black housing with 3mm front panel and blue led.

WHY HDMI LVDS I2S OUTPUT?

I2S is like USB asynchronous connection. Compared to standard S/PDIF where clock signal is integrated in data stream a complex process is required in the DAC to transform signal back to asynchronous.

With I2S the shortest possible signal path from streamer to DAC to analogue conversion is achieved.

No additional encoding and decoding steps are required. USB does require this.

The HDMI cable from streamer to DAC is less impacting the sonic quality and no expensive cables are required to obtain best sound quality.

The only disadvantage you could think of is I2S is not really a standard, although more and more vendors are supporting I2S as external in or output.

Why R-Core transformer?

R-core transformer has high isolation degree. it improves the signal-to-noise ratio, isolate the harmonic interference, reduce the noise, make he background cleaner. R core transformer can fully improve the quality of sound.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Standard HDMI 60cm cable included

Automute I2S signal when switching between sample rates

Supports volume control from application (On / Off)

Future software upgrades for both soft- and hardware supported

REVIEWS

"I find the mano in HDMI I2S and ACSS (mano->HE7->HE1->M2H) to sound very transparent, giving a lot of details, sounding analogue, not harsh at all. I am now finally considering of using the Mano as my main source and even getting rid of CDs and my CD transport"